Button and ornament paster



(No Model) M. MOOSE. BUTTON AND ORNAMENT FASTER.

Patented Mar; 26, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MORIS MOOSE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

BUTTON AND ORNAMENT PASTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 400,353, dated March26,1889.

Application filed April 21, 1888. Serial No. 271,410. (N0 modeh) To allwhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MORIS MOOSE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented a new'and useful Improvement in Button and Ornament Pasters, ofwhich the following is a specification.

It is the custom of manufacturers of but tons, dress ornaments, and thelike small articles, to fasten their wares, for convenience in shippingand handling, upon sheets of card-board. Usually, and more especially inthe case of the smaller buttons and ornaments, the cards hold I numbersof dozens of the article, which are arranged in rows, and

. by a system of fastening commonly practiced a continuous thread servesto retain all or a number of the articles upon the card. It is customaryfor retailers of the buttons and ornaments thus secured, when fewer ofthe articles than a card contains are desired by a purchaser, to cutfrom the card a section carrying the desired number. This naturallysevers and loosens the thread which serves to retain the remainder ofthe article left upon the card, which latter is therefore liable, withhandling, to separate from the retaining medium.

My object is to provide means for overcoming this difficulty.

To this end my invention consists in abutton and ornament pastercomprising a block composed of paper sheets gummed on one side andfastened together toward two opposite edges.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of my improved paster,and Figs. 2 and 3 broken plan views of one end of the same, showing twoways of fastening the sheets together toward the edges.

A is the block, of which A is the back, composed, preferably, of stiffpasteboard, and A the cover, of like material.

B represents sheets of thin paper or an equivalent material for mypurpose, each gummed on the side toward the cover A the sheets beingfastened together and to the back A, and, as to the upper edge, (wherethey may be perforated, as shown, to afford tear= ing-lines,) also tothe cover, by means of sta- 5e ples s. The fastening of the sheets, asde scribed, holds them flat and prevents their tendency to curl.

O is a strip of thin sheet metal, preferably of the shape shown, and D asponge, both of which serve as adjuncts for purposes herein afterdescribed.

The gummed sheets of paper are designed more especially for theconvenience of retail ers of buttons and ornaments, .to enable themreadily to secure the buttons or ornaments upon the cards which containthem in a manner to prevent their becoming loosened with the severanceof the thread, where a section of the card is out 01f, the fasteningeffect being produced by a sheet of the gummed pa per applied upon theconnecting-thread to the back of the card. The blockA affordsaconvenient means for keeping a supply of gummed sheets close at handand ready for use when required. It is used as follows: The cover Abeing first thrown back, the plate 0 is inserted under the top gummedsheet, B,as-- shown, and the gummed surface of the latter dampened bymeans of the sponge D, previously moistened for the purpose. The plate Cis then tilted upward, causing it to tear the dampened sheet from thefastenings s, and the sheet is then applied to the back of the card. Theplate 0, in addition to affording 8o convenient means for tearing offthe dampened sheet, prevents the moisture from penetrating to the gummedsheets underneath.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As a new article of manufacture, a button and ornament paster comprisingsheets of paper gummed on one side and fastened together intoblockstoward two opposite edges, substantially as described.

- MORIS MOOSE.

In presence of- J. W. DYRENFORTH, M. J. BOWERS.

